Curriculum Vitae

Education

2004 BFA, President's Scholar, Studio Art with concentration in Pictorial Art, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University 2003 Advanced Studies in Pictorial Art, School of Art and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles

2019 That We Should Be Heirs, collaboration with San Diego Art Institute, Peacemakers of International Rescue Committee, and the public, an interactive, multi-voiced, art installation containing handwritten letters about fear and how we overcome it, San Diego, CA Ruminate Happenings, collaboration Ruminate Magazine and her readers, Fort Collins, CO 2018 Me Too/Vietnamese Bodies, collaboration with She Who Has No Master/s, poetic performance with visual art component, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveled to the International Hotel, San Francisco, CA We Come to Bring Forth Light, collaboration with Portland Children's Museum and Living School of Art, Portland, OR 2017 A Time to Heal, socially engaging fine art collaboration with Photographer J. Grant Brittain and war veterans Sponsored in partnership by Oceanside Museum of Art and MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA Isolation, visual arrangement for P.Q. Phan's composition, Musco Center for the Arts, Chapman University, Orange, CA Resound, Roots, Revitalize Our Words, a poetic and musical collaboration with LibroMobile, Heninger Village and Kimberly Alidio, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana,CA 2016 Treble / Tremble, a collaboration in movement and sound with Australian sound artist Luke Jaaniste, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CAInstallation for Pacific Symphony's Lantern Festival, in collaboration with Heninger Village Art Studio, the Irvine Chinese School, and the Nguoi Viet Senior Art Class of the Bowers Museum Treasures Program, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA2015 VIETNAMESE FOCUS: Generations of Stories, Old Orange County Courthouse Museum, Santa Ana, CA In partnership with the University of California, Irvine (VAOHP) and Orange County Parks I Breathe With You, in collaboration with Kelly Clark, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Conferences, Symposiums, Presentations, and Workshops

2019 That We Should Be Heirs, for the San Diego Museum of Art Contemporary Arts Committee, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA Embedding engagement genes into our institutional DNA, for the New California Arts Foundation, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA2018 Harvest: Collecting Narratives of Past through Art, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA Preparing Artist Portfolios, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CAArt: A Passage to Unearthing History, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Inspiration, Insight, and Inheritance, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA We Are Living History, Living School of Art, Portland, OR 2017 A Time to Heal: Art as Catharsis, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA Culture and Creativity: Retelling History Through Artistic Expression, California State University, Fullerton A Time to Heal: Art as Catharsis, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CAArt-making Workshop with Trinh Mai, Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center, University of California, IrvineTrinh Mai: An Artist's Vietnamese American Journey, Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, CAArchival Use in Research + Art, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Artist Talk with Trinh Mai: Documenting Life and War, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA Where Your Curiosity Can Take You, Keynote address for Southeast Asian Success Youth Conference, University of California, IrvineA Conversation with Vietnamese American Artist Trinh Mai, University of California, San DiegoExcavating Our History: Visual Art as a Method for Research, University of California, Los Angeles We Are Here: Vietnamese American Identity and Memory, sponsored by UC Irvine as part of Homescapes/Warscapes 25/30, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA2016Independent Visions: Sharing our Histories: Visual Art as Storytelling, California State University, Los AngelesArt as a Medium in the Search for History & Healing, University of California, IrvineOral History as Transnational Method & Praxis, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Miami, FLCritical Dialogues Beyond Borders, University of California, RiversideSharing our Histories: Visual Art as Storytelling, University of California, Irvine2015 Asian American Women's Literature & Art, San Francisco State UniversitySearch and Discover, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA2014Art & Influence, with Thai Composer Narong Prangcharoen as part of Painting Music, South Coast Chinese Cultural Association, Irvine, CA 2012 California and Beyond: Conversations with Vietnamese American Artists, Filmmakers & Writers, Stanford UniversityTrùng Duong: The Convergence of Rivers, San Jose Center for Performing Arts, San Jose, CA2001 Arise: New Poetry by Trinh Mai, San Jose State University